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i am so genuinely tired of doomed yaoi and yuri someone let me fucking rest *on my knees screaming to the universe under the rain*

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scott pilgrim aerti

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Shirou emiya from fate !

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Shirou: Some of you have been saying “Shirou you use your father’s ideals to cope with the fact you’re just a broken shell of a person!” I’ll have you know I have other interests, like swords and housework. Just because I can’t recall the last time I felt a proper emotion doesn’t mean I’m not doing great.

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heaven's feel is incredibly funny when you consider both ilya and rin having to put up with hearing their siblings having extremely loud very emotionally significant sex in the next room over. silently fuming because they don't want to spoil their important character development

rin laying in bed, silent and with a completely blank expression, turns over and sees illya doing the same thing. they share an understanding nod and go back to staring dead-eyed at the ceiling

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sorry if this is a bit misspelled, but I just wanted to rant about Shirou Emiya because he is a character I really relate to. As an artist who wants to save people with their art because they were saved by some piece of art that someone made, Shirou’s whole deal is really interesting to me. He is a character that so perfectly captures being a young person with issues who is trying to make a positive impact on the world but doesn’t have a healthy enough relationship with themselves or the people around them to do anything with that dream besides hurting themselves. This didn’t capture the entire reason why I love Shirou Emiya but I hope this helps people appreciate him more. Also I think Fate/Stay night and Undertale would be a really good double bill since they both about helping people, making change in the world, and by extension heroism, but Undertale is more about how understanding people and coming together will change the world where as Fate is about how we can’t make healthy change unless we have a healthy relationship with ourselves and a strong support system. Anyway, hope everyone hade a great Shirou day!

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Every time I see a "Shirou is just a bland harem protagonist and is the worst part of F/SN" takes I've come to realize this is largely a take that's predicated on the anime and not from reading the actual VN. It's really important to note that all the F/SN animes are 3rd person, which means we're observing Shirou and not really getting much if any of his internal monologue, while F/SN is in the 1st person. It's told directly from the experience of Shirou, and we get to see all that Shirou is thinking about it, including the ways his trauma literally shapes who he is and how unhealthy attachment to the ideal of a hero at the expense of the self.

But perhaps the funniest thing that really highlights how kind of clear this becomes is that the prologue of F/SN is told from Rin's perspective, and we actually for the only time in the VN really see Shirou from a 3rd person perspective, and he's described as kind of weird. There's nothing really inherently magnetic about him for some bizarre reason, he's actually described as putting people off. He's the kind of guy who will very quickly agree to help you but would rather go to work or go home than actually do anything particularly social. He's maladjusted enough that his three closest friends are Issei, who grew up in a temple and is largely utterly devoted to it, Shinji, who is more of a legacy friendship and actively uses Shirou, and Taiga, who is basically his mom.

The idea that Shirou is bland should probably be instantly destroyed by the time you get through like 5% of the game, because he's actually kind of a creature.

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Hikaru Kondou (producer): Maybe let's have a spin off where Shirou cooks for fun and all the servants are there and no one has to die.

Nasu: *Sitting on FGO money* Yeah sure man go ahead

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SINCE ITS WANTED...(two people at least ...trans girl shirou for yall *peace signs and puts on sunglasses and walks backward into a cliff trans girl shirou for pride month...

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I forgot if I ever posted my Rin "bi bi bi" video

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EMIYA SHIROU from FATE STAY/NIGHT

JUSTIFICATIONS:

"There's a couple of moments through various mediums that Shirou shows she's an egg. On many occasions, the female characters around her make her apart of their outings, for one reason or another. She's one of the girls and she deserves to be happy. She's even through so much." - Anonymous

"She's the most trans coded protagonist in the history of the world. In the first of the three routes of Fate Stay/Night, she falls in love with another trans woman who is explicitly stated not to be into men. In the others, she once again ends up in a relationship with women for whom she is the "one exception" to not being into men. She has fucked up ideas about gender roles given to her by her dad that are deconstructed before her eyes throughout the entire VN. The way she's so naturally at home surrounded by her girl best friends while every conversation with a man is a contest or combat. The fact that her future self is a miserable man who explicitly tells her to let go of the things her father taught her about herself so she can be happy. Like, how much more blatant can it get. She's the most pre-realization transgender autism lesbian of all time." - Anonymous

Reminder: Submissions are always open!

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ok 🫶🏼🏳️‍⚧️

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Sabertember Day 11

10 years since

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Canon, I think.